Raceway. It has come a long way in the
last five years. It's a contract-operated
version of RaceTrac, and we're really
trying to grow that side of the business.
Trish Mayer, The AmGraph Group: Our
focus in 2014 is to not only growing the
company, but to focus on creating addition-
al value for our clients such as additional
creative services and product offerings.
That's our focus. We want to take our core
client base, and offer a true value with our
products and services.
Scott Crissey, Dollar Financial Group:
We're beginning to roll out our portfolio
of Suttons and Robertsons Stores in the
United States. Our fagship store under
construction in New York City is due to
open early 2014. We're continuing our
rollout our lighting retroft program – LEDs
going from T-12s to T-8s. We'll continue
to monitor those costs. We've fnished that
project in Canada, and now we are focus-
ing on the US stores.
Our focus is on target renovations in
North America – our Platinum stores –stores
that generate the most revenue. In Europe,
we have probably 50-60 stores we're grow-
ing. The European side is defnitely where
the company's growing. Our e-commerce is
strong as well.
CED Capital Electric Supply's Mann:
We anticipate 2014 being very strong
for us, which will follow up on the great
year we've had so far. We continue to
educate people about lighting and how
to decrease their energy consumption
by offering solutions such as solar as a
secondary to lighting.
Bill Chaff, bd's Mongolian Grill: We're
going to continue to upgrade and remod-
el. We're going to encourage all of our
franchise partners to do the same. In 2014,
we're anticipating anywhere from three to
fve new franchise locations. We're starting
to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
For example, we're starting to see money
loosen up for new loans.
Charlie Clark, Aquatherm: We see 2014
as the year we're going to go from being a
Rising up
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